
From King's Foreword in Battle Stations! Your Navy In Action (1946) by Admirals of the U.S. Navy, p. 10
Quoted in "American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur" - by William Manchester - 1978 - Page 195
From King's Foreword in Battle Stations! Your Navy In Action (1946) by Admirals of the U.S. Navy, p. 10
Written in his prison diary
1940s
"To Practice Thrift and Oppose Embezzlement (1952)
1950's
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
Attributed without citation in Gary Ninneman, C.I.A.: Church in Atrophy (Xulon Press, 2006), p. 167. This is possibly a confusion with John Augustus Shedd.
At the 130th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Naval Institute and Annapolis Naval History Symposium on 31 March 2004. http://www.usni.org/seminars/annualmeeting/04/annualmeeting04Lehman.htm, http://www.johnflehman.com/pdf/proceedings_MAR2004.pdf (PFD)
“A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for.”
Taken from a quote of Grace Hopper. [Tropp, Henry S., Fall 1984, Grace Hopper: The Youthful Teacher of Us All, Abacus, 2, 1, p. 18, 0724-6722]
Invoked by Palin at her introduction by Senator John McCain as his choice for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination on .
2014
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
John Shedd, p. 81
They Both Die at the End (2017)